United States DC Circuit - November 2009 Opinion Summaries

Hunt Const. Grp., Inc. v. Nat'l. Wrecking Corp.

Commercial Law, Construction, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a suit by a contractor against a defaulting subcontractor and two sureties on the subcontractor's performance bond, summary judgment for sureties...

North Carolina v. EPA

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
North Carolina's petition for review of a final rule of the EPA removing the northern part of the State of Georgia from EPA's regulations under its...

Carr v. Dist. of Columbia

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action alleging that the police unlawfully arrested plaintiffs during a protest, summary judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed in part where the...

Mitchell v. Fed. Bureau of Prisons

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) on appeal, the application is denied where, although plaintiff had only two "strikes"...

Tooley v. Napolitano

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In an action claiming that the government unlawfully wiretapped plaintiff's phone and placed him on a terrorism watch list, dismissal of the action is...

Sanford v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Military Law
In a petition for habeas review of a military court martial, dismissal of the petition is affirmed where 1) there was no due process right to a...

Williams v. Martinez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a murder prosecution, dismissal of petitioner's habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction is reversed where, because the state court of appeals held...

Kersey v. Wash. Metro. Area Trans. Auth.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a disability discrimination action alleging that defendant transit authority's refusal to promote plaintiff was the consequence of discrimination...

US v. Reeves

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug possession sentence is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not err in imposing an obstruction of justice enhancement because...

Camden County Council on Econ. Dev. v. US Dep't of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law
In an action challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) decision to terminate plaintiff-school district's Head Start funds as...